• Zhonghua Zheng Xing Shao Shang Wai Ke Za Zhi · Mar 1999

    Case Reports

    [The application of external skin expansion in the soft tissue donor site].

    • M Zhang, D Wang, and H Jiang.
    • Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Changhai Hospital, Shanghai 200433.
    • Zhonghua Zheng Xing Shao Shang Wai Ke Za Zhi. 1999 Mar 1;15(2):132-4.

    ObjectiveTo overcome the insufficiency of donor tissue for repairing a large postburn defect.MethodsThe donor site was pre-expanded with an external expansion device in 54 clinical cases.ResultsThe expansion process was uneventful. The external expansion had delay effect that enabled the flap to be transferred with greater length to width ratio. After external expansion, the donor site of a flap or skin graft could be closed directly. The recipient and donor sites healed simultaneously.ConclusionExternal expansion is a practical method to provide 'extra' skin for reconstruction of a large skin defect.

      Pubmed     Copy Citation     Plaintext  

      Add institutional full text...

    Notes

     
    Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?
    300 characters remaining
    help        
    You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
    • Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as *italics*, _underline_ or **bold**.
    • Superscript can be denoted by <sup>text</sup> and subscript <sub>text</sub>.
    • Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines 1. 2. 3., hyphens - or asterisks *.
    • Links can be included with: [my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com)
    • Images can be included with: ![alt text](https://bestmedicaljournal.com/study_graph.jpg "Image Title Text")
    • For footnotes use [^1](This is a footnote.) inline.
    • Or use an inline reference [^1] to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document [^1]: This is a long footnote..

    hide…